Screen Digest on PS3,Wii,360: We don't know what is going to happen yet

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TheSource said:

Lucas they don't actually say "we don't know", I put that in the thread title because Screen Digest said 112 million DS, 67 million PSP, but gave no numbers for this battle.

Also, there is a trend suggesting that the market will grow just past 250 million consoles sold - in total. But I have my doubts that will happen..so I really, really doubt any console will sell 250 million for at least 15 years.

 

But,

Atari's first gen to NES...30-35 million to 65-70 million

..NES-PS1 gen...call it 68 million to 135 million or so...

PS1 to current gen...270 million? Possible..not likely, but not too out there either.

 Yeah, I agree with you here, Source. It really depends on how big that Blue Ocean is. Has Nintendo tapped 5-10 million new users with the Wii? That would be impressive, certainly, and I'd say that's somewhere around the minimum. But what if it's 50 million? 75? Those aren't impossible figures, if women and adults begin to purchase the machine in large numbers in Japan/America/Europe. Until we have a firm grasp on just how well the system is selling to such people, we really won't know how significantly the market has expanded.